civilized ku # 1091 ~ everyday stuff

Remains ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenWhy, some might ask, do you make pictures of this stuff?

Well, I think Jeff Wall stated it best when he said:

The everyday, or the commonplace, is the most basic and the richest artistic category. Although it seems familiar, it is always surprising and new. But at the same time, there is an openness that permits people to recognize what is there in the picture, because they have already seen something like it somewhere. So the everyday is a space in which meanings accumulate, but it’s the pictorial realization that carries the meanings into the realm of the pleasurable.